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priornix

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About priornix

Technical head with Clojure, Python, JS, Flex, and in a past life, C/C++ experience.

https://github.com/priornix

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    Comment #14774929

    Great, would love to hear more about this!

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    Comment #14774852

    With pkg [1][2] and nexe [3] you can package ClojureScript on Node.js applications as a static binary. Of course, Go would be better in terms of size/performance, so it's now a mat…

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    Comment #14774840

    With nexe [1][2] and pkg [3] you can now package ClojureScript on Node.js as a static binary, and startup time is now a lot better compared to Clojure on JVM. Go would definitely b…

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    Comment #14774826

    Good list, would love to hear more details about their success stories and use cases.

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    Comment #14774811

    Nice! You guys rock. Any blog posts to share about why Clojure was chosen and how it's working out for you guys?

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    Comment #14767675

    A fairly high percentage. I guess filtering for candidates who are polyglot developers comfortable in more than one language helps. The fact that Clojure is used acts as a filter f…

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    Comment #14766674

    Well, I found it found it hard to hire Clojure developers too. But I addressed it by hiring good to competent developers, asking if they are willing to learn Clojure and then getti…

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    Comment #14766627

    Is this the only big success story for Clojure or other companies using the Lisp family of programming languages? I know there is Paul Graham's Viaweb. [1] Does anyone know of othe…

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    Comment #14758914

    Depends whether you learn best by reading [1], answering some interactive questions/koans [2], or downloading and playing around with a ToDoMVC app example [3][4][5] or a mixture o…

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    Comment #14757505

    That's very true, one of the key aspects that I use for picking a language is the huge ecosystem. Enough cannot be mentioned about the ecosystem of libraries and tools. With Clojur…

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    Comment #14757477

    One thing I really like about Clojure is how the language has basically stayed the same, but I can use it on the heavy server-side stuffs like working with Hadoop, Spark, ElasticSe…

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    Comment #5186893

    Hi Amy, Thanks for sharing your experiences in such an open manner. It certainly takes much courage and bravery to shutting down your service and even more so, writing honestly abo…